Nandi Rose Plunkett aka Half Waif will release her new form/a EP on February 24 via the Cascine label. Comprised of six tracks, the second single taken from the new record is Plunkett’s lush tune ‘Frost Burn’. Addressing the idea of embracing hurt and pain rather than running away from the feeling, the experimental electronic pop song is embedded with fuzzy synths, melodic piano chords and angelic vocals, all whipping around one another in an unorthodox yet ear-pleasing manner.

In a press statement regarding ‘Frost Burn’, Half Waif wrote:

“I wrote Frost Burn while on a writing retreat in Western Massachusetts for a week in December 2015. I was feeling stifled by life in Brooklyn and by living with a partner and never really being alone (in fact, never really wanting to be alone), so I headed back to the country, where I grew up. I rented an apartment from my mom’s friend that had a river running behind it. Geese would flock to the river every day like clockwork. It was totally peaceful and idyllic – what every artist would dream of. But I didn’t feel the way I thought I would. Throughout that week, I felt my same old fears and anxieties creeping through me. I couldn’t leave them behind in the city, as much as I wanted to. Painful memories from childhood were there, in that landscape, and my insidious self-doubts were there, in my body. And that’s where that line comes from: ‘and on my island, / I cannot keep out all the violence.’ It’s a way of saying: no matter how much of a circle I draw around myself, no matter how much separation I create between me and my environment, I am still affected by the dark forces that are a part of me. There is no retreat, really – there is only recognition.”